Panetta: Pakistan ‘Must Have’ Known About bin Laden

In a new interview with CBS today, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta accused Pakistan of having known about Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts before the US assassination, saying the US had seen Pakistani military helicopters overflying the compound in the past.

US officials have repeatedly made allegations to this effect, but the Pakistani government has maintained that they did not know Osama bin Laden was at the compound, and indeed has expressed annoyance that the US didn’t tell anyone about their suspicions.

6 thoughts on “Panetta: Pakistan ‘Must Have’ Known About bin Laden”

For crying out loud, who are these clowns trying to fool? The CIA and the rest of the US government knew bloody well Bin Laden died of kidney failure back in December 2001. CNN even reported it at the time, and for the past 10 years, they've been using him, CIA and Mossad fake videos and all, as a bogeyman for the phony "War on Terror'. How convenient they dumped the body in the sea ( or at least said they did) of whoever they killed in Pakistan. I guess the Empire had to "kill" Bin Laden so they could start ramping up the beating of the war drums for Iran.

Close, actually he died in 06 from his kidney failure. The guy they killed in that infamous raid was a younger brother who resembled him enough to try to carry on his 'legacy' by dyeing his beard and hair grey(er) so he could make videos as Osama. He didn't do it enough apparently and the media went on and on that Osama had dyed his hair and beard darker to 'make himself look younger' in that most recent video. That's why there was no dialysis machine there which Osama wouldn't have survived without and truly even with at that pt. in time. That also explains why 'Osama' was seen 'studying' himself on videos. Might explain the porn that was found there too though I don't know about that.

Yeah. I also asked why he would be channel surfing using his right hand to hold the remote when the FBI dossier clearly says he's a lefty. I also wondered HOW anyone can say conclusively state that it was even him in the video when you couldn't even see the persons face!? We're told that the Seals retrieved a "watershed" of intelligence and….porn. I'm sorry, I just don't believe ANY OF IT.

Mr.Pla-neta Hollywoood is never tiring of killing OBL where he never existed and as a matter of fact seized to exist quite long ago.It surprises me always as if His family DNA turned out from that compound really meant he himself was there.What a shame and please DO NOT say Pakistan knew about it.As a matter of fact USA created it and they knew where he was all the time and cashed him when time suited them.

I don't even try to follow these international stories any more about the latest Carmen Sandiego. The public is not there to be informed but to be led. Those leading are intelligence specialists, not reporters. Who killed Daniel Pearl and more to the point, what was Pearl up to while reporting colorfully on the region to the Wall Street Journal? The last people he was said to have met with were Pakistani ISI, but in the movie his wife says "Al Qaeda killed him." Maybe assets of the US killed him. Who killed Benazir Bhutto when she dared to return defiantly to Pakistan? I'm thinking there's a three-headed monster running loose in Pakistan, and that it is what kills people. But of course, it is only my uneducated opinion.

In real life, there were only two degrees of separation between myself and both of those murder victims/casualties of war. That made it feel more personal. I cannot say the same about bin Laden, but perhaps only because I am unaware of it. Feels like living in a gangster world since the GWOT, however.